Which archive to get?

2002-03-12 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi! In view of recent zlib problems, which tar.gz should I get? README for 2.5.3 says, that this problem is fixed, however, the file which is available for download at http://va.samba.org/ftp/rsync/ is called rsync-2.5.3-compression-broken.tar.gz So, is this archive ok, or something is still br

Re: Write-only option

2002-02-26 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Dave Dykstra wrote: > It seems to me that there must be a more fundamental problem with the > security model of that backup system if users had the ability to read each > other's files. Even with a "write only" option, they can overwrite each > other's files, right? What if

Write-only option

2002-02-23 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi! I am doing backups from a number of machines to an rsync server. For some time I was trying to come up with a solution, which would prevent users from peeking at each other's files, which are backed up. Finally, I've hacked rsync, introducing a new option "write only" for rsyncd.conf. When se